Refugees and citizens in twentieth century East-Central Europe : an unlikely refuge? / edited by Michal Frankl

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Frankl, Michal, 1974- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees--Europe, Central--20th century.

Refugees.

Citizenship--Europe, Central--20th century.

Citizenship.

Central Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

illustration

Place of Publication:

Budapest : CEU Press, [2026]

Summary:

"Visited by violence and wars, border changes and political instability, authoritarian and totalitarian regimes as well as ethnic conflict, cleansing, and genocide, East-Central Europe in the twentieth century seemed an unlikely place of protection for refugees. This volume challenges this widespread view and explores a variety of forms of refugee protection, humanitarianism, and refugee agency in settings beyond the perceived stability of “Western” liberal democracies. Analyzing Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, and Yugoslavia over the twentieth century, the contributors provide a multi-faceted picture of refugee reception and aid, or its absence, across very different political regimes"-- De Gruyter Brill

Contents:

Refugees and citizens in East-Central Europe in the twentieth century : Introduction to an unlikely refuge / Michal Frankl

Jewish refugees, encampment, and the humanitarian paradox in Austria-Hungary during the First World War / Doina Anca Cretu

Places of passage or precarious sanctuaries? : The negotiations between refugees and state authorities in an Upper Adriatic borderland / Francesca Rolandi

Refugee temporalities : Time displacement in the flight of Polish Jews from Nazism (a conceptual study) / Lidia Zessin-Jurek

The construction of a political refugee : Foreign comrades in 1950s socialist Czechoslovakia / Nikola Tohma

The “stomach question” : Food and refugee children from Greece in East Germany and Poland / Julia Reinke

From refugees to labor migrants : Cold War Austria in the East-Central European context / Maximilian Graf

(Not so) temporary refuge? : Navigating multiple temporalities among 1990s Bosnian refugees to Czechoslovakia and Czechia / Karla Koutková

Toward a conceptual history of refugees in Hungary / Ágnes Katalin Kelemen

Conclusion : (Un)likely refuge and (un)known refugees / Michal Frankl

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed September 10, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Refugees and citizens in twentieth century East-Central Europe

ISBN:

9789048572908

9048572908

9781042003877

1042003874

9789048572915

9048572916

OCLC:

1552583375

Publisher Number:

CIPO000394713

Access Restriction:

Some versions: Open access versions available from some providers open access